Onsdag
10:01 Vi kører
over til Kennington, en lille forstad til Oxford, hvor vores venner, Jen og
Bill, bor. På vej smutter vi ind i Newlands plejehjem i Witney og snakker lidt
med min tante Bobby. Hun er mor til min fætter, John, der bor i Witney med sin
kone, Chris, og til min kusine, Susan, der bor i Monument, Colorado USA. En
sosu-assistent ledsager os til Bobbys værelse og vi snakker med hende i ca 30
minutter. Hun har det ikke ret godt nu, og hun bruger de fleste dage på at
ligge og sove i sengen. Men hun husker os, og vi taler med hende om John og
Susan, og vores ferie i Australien mellem april og juni.
11:00 Vi kører
videre til Kennington og spiser frokost med Jen og Bill, vores venner, og Jens
far, Basil, der i april fylder 100 år gammel – du godeste! Det er en skam, at
vi ikke kan mødes med Daniel, Jens og Bills søn, fordi han er på arbejde i
Radcliffe Camera, en del af universitetets bibliotek. Daniel har en god
humoristisk sans. Han er lidt af en introvert, men han spiller guitar i sine fætres
rockband. Bandet giver live shows i de lokale pubber. Han er 42 år gammel og
single.
16:00 Vi kører
over til Iffley og tjekker ind på Hawkwell House Hotel. Vi spiser aftensmad på
hotellets restaurant og bruger resten af aftenen på vores værelse.
Torsdag
08:30 Vi
spiser morgenmad på hotellets restaurant og tager bussen ind i byen. Vi leger
turister lidt og besøger byens slot, der blev bygget i angel-saksiske tider for
over 1000 år siden, og som også indtil for ca. 20 år siden var byens fængsel –
uha! Vi spiser frokost på slottets café.
vi leger turister lidt i bymidten
vi besøger byens slot
13:00 Efter
frokost går vi hen til Somerville College, hvor Margaret Thatcher i 1950’erne læste
kemi og ser os om i kollegiums haver. Vi prøver at finde ud af, hvor det
værksted lå, hvor Lois’s forfader arbejdede for 100 år siden, som rebslager,
men så mange bygninger er blevet revet ned, at det er svært at være sikker på, nøjagtigt
hvor rebslageri var.
vi besøger Somerville College, hvor Margaret Thatcher læste kemi i 1950’erne
vi prøver at finde spor af det rebslageri, hvor Lois’s forfader arbejdede
for 100 år siden,
men uden succes – uha!
15:00 Vi tager
bussen tilbage til vores hotel og slapper af med en kop te i vores værelse. Vi
spiser aftensmad på hotellets restaurant og bruger resten af aftenen på at se
lidt fjernsyn.
Fredag
08:30 Vi
spiser morgenmad på hotellets restaurant og tjekker ud. Vi kører hjem til
Cheltenham. Vi spiser frokost og bagefter går i seng og tager os en gigantisk
eftermiddagslur – zzzzzz!!!!
English
translation
Wednesday
10:01 We drive over to Kennington, a small suburb of
Oxford, where our friends, Jen and Bill, live. On the way we pop into Newlands
nursing home in Witney and talk a little with my aunt Bobby. She is the mother
to my cousin John, who lives in Witney with his wife, Chris, and mother also to my cousin,
Susan, who lives in Monument, Colorado USA.
A social and health care assistant
accompanies us to Bobby's room and we talk with her for about 30 minutes. She
is not that well now, and she spends most days lying and sleeping in bed. But
she remembers us, and we talk to her about John and Susan, and our vacation in
Australia between April and June.
11:00 We drive to Kennington and eat lunch with Jen and
Bill, our friends, and Jen's father, Basil, who in April will turn 100 years
old - my goodness! It's a shame that we cannot meet with Daniel, Jen and Bill's
son because he is at work in the Radcliffe Camera, part of the university
library. Daniel has a good sense of humor. He is a bit of an introvert, but he
plays guitar in his cousins' rock band. The band provides live shows in the
local pubs. He is 42 years old and single.
16:00 We drive over to Iffley and check into Hawkwell
House Hotel. We eat dinner at the hotel restaurant and spend the rest of the
evening in our room.
Thursday
08:30 We eat breakfast at the hotel restaurant and take
the bus into town. We play the tourist a little and visit the town's castle, which was
built in Anglo-Saxon times over 1000 years ago, and which until about 20
years ago was also the city jail - oh dear! We have lunch at the castle café.
we play the tourist in the town center
13:00 After lunch we walk over to Somerville College,
where Margaret Thatcher studied chemistry in the 1950s and we look round in the
College's gardens. We try to find out where the workshop was where Lois's
ancestor worked 100 years ago, as a rope-maker, but so many buildings have been
torn down, that it's hard to be sure exactly where the rope-walk was.
we visit Somerville College, where Margaret Thatcher
studied chemistry in the 1950s
we
try to find traces of the rope-walk, where Lois's ancestor worked 100 years
ago,
but without success - oh dear!
15:00 We take the bus back to our hotel and relax with a
cup of tea in our room. We eat dinner at the hotel restaurant and spend the
rest of the evening watching TV.
Friday
08:30 We eat breakfast at the hotel's restaurant and
check out. We drive home to Cheltenham. We eat lunch and then go to bed and
take a giant nap - zzzzzz !!!!
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